Baku Museum of Miniature Books

Baku Museum of Miniature Books

Established	2002
Location	Inner City No. 1/67, Baku, Azerbaijan
Director	Zərifə Salahova

Baku Museum of Miniature Books-is the only museum of miniature books in the world, settled in the old part of Baku, called Inner City.^[1] Its activity started on April 2, 2002.

Founder

Exhibits in the museum were collected by Zarifa Salahova (the sister of Tahir Salahov) over the period of 30 years. Her collection consists of more than 6500 books from 64 different countries.^[2] The museum was opened to public viewing with the hope of promoting childhood literacy.^[3]

Characteristics of the museum

The collection contains miniature books published in post-revolutionary Russia and in the Soviet period.

There are books in the exposition from several countries including Moldavia, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus and from the republics of Middle Asia and Europe.

There are many rare editions including those of Chukovsky, Barto, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, and works of A.S.Pushkin.^[4]

Miniature books of the famous Azerbaijani classics, such as Vagif, Khurshidbanu Natavan, Nizami Ganjavi, Nasimi, Fizuli, Samed Vurgun, Mirza Fatali Akhundov and others are exhibited in the museum.

Other notable miniatures in this collection include a 17th-century copy of the Quran,^[5] a 13th-century book published by Peter Schöffer (successor to Johannes Gutenberg), and the three smallest books in the world measuring 2mm x 2mm that can only be read with the use of a magnifying glass.^[6]

Exposition of the museum

References

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• Baku's Miniature Book Museum: Great Ideas in Small Packages, in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 11:2 (Summer 2003), p. 43.